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Dr. Birgit Peña Häufler

After her studies in Social Sciences and Sociology in Marburg and Bonn and a brief excursion into Berlin's start-up scene, Birgit Peña joined our staff as a research and teaching fellow in October 2013.

Her doctoral research was allocated at the crossroads of migration and diversity studies and entrepreneurship research with a focus on forcibly displaced people. The processes of (social) value creation through entrepreneurial endeavors of, as well as the antecedents to the entrepreneurial behavior of forcibly displaced people formed at the core of her research interests during her PhD studies.

In her postdoctoral research, Birgit is delving into the analysis of sociological and psychological determinants of group creativity processes. Within this project, Birgit is applying various methodologies ranging from phenomenological approaches to the use of affective computing.